Clara Schumann, Klavier

Clara Schumann's life story has become legendary. Her self-sacrificing childhood, her enormous talent as a pianist and composer, her early love for Robert Schumann, which she pursued against her father's wishes, and her upbringing of seven children provide ample material for myths. Clara Schumann has since been regarded as a musical prodigy, an idol of romantically idealized love, or an exemplary mother. In his comprehensive biography, Dieter Kühn traces Clara Schumann's life path and creates, with imagination and factual knowledge, the portrait of a highly sensitive and self-assured woman in whose life almost the entire 19th century is reflected.